A sad state of affairs - our school system

[weekendwellies]

This link is about my eldest daughter's school. And I have to say I agree with a lot of the things the writer says about the way the school is going. I am just glad that my daughter had a few years at the school when it was run the old way and benefited greatly from her life there, and is now coming to the end of her secondary education. She opted to remain at the school rather than go through the upheaval of changing to a different one for her A-levels.





The Road To Mediocrity. - Philip Coppell blog | Click Liverpool

[taff]

At the school I went to, one of my friends parent was a parent governor and opposed to changing the school from a grammar school to a comprehensive stating that standards would drop, and the school would be forced to let in pupils who were not academically proficient, and that the lower bands would increase in number until they overtook the upper bands [we were sorted according to ability and before someone goes off their head about some pupils not having an attention span, or scred of exams etc, yes I am aware of that, in bands where the moreproficient were bands A B and C, any band below it were the less proficient pupils]

What do you know, she was right.
Plus ça change plus c'est la même chose

[geoff]

Depressing, but it doesn't suprise me
I read in a recent newspaper article, but couldn't quote the where & when, that wealthy Indians used to send their children to British boarding schools to get a good education. Now it seems that wealthy Indians who have settled in Britain are sending their children back to boarding schools in India for the same reason